tackle football at a younger age, i did that. i had my shoulder dislocated a couple times. i wouldn't stop him from doing that. you don't put kids in sort of giant michelin man outfits. they have to incur some risk. managing risk, kids can't be protected from that but it is a few huge industry, has grown up around this beautiful game that is so concerning to me and what i am turning away from. i still play catch with my neighbor who can throw it 50 yards because i love it. some kids playing pickup ball outside my daughter and swim practice and i was watching them, i totally want to go play with them. the game itself is amazing and wonderful. everything around it that is for me gone too dark.

[applause] >> you're watching booktv, television for serious readers. you can watch any program you see here online at booktv.org. >> did anyone see the movie contagion? this is a virus that comes out of nowhere and we didn't know until 2002 that actually fruit bats, contain viruses. we learned that when viruses came along. we knew the rabies was carried by vampire bats in south america for example. some cases elsewhere. very closely related virus being contracted as result of that virus. but before the 2000 that's all

we knew. and suddenly sars comes along lt it gives an enormous shock the kids we think it's influential, it's not influential. it took about three months to forget what it was. it turned out in the end what it was was a virus that came out of bats. it went into the himalayan so the cats a little animal in southern china. comes out in force to areas. and it has infected humans in those live animal markets and it was the chinese new year and spread very quickly. it spread to hong kong, spread to singapore and toronto. they were the main areas infected in east asia, the only area affected out of asia was actually toronto. and it killed about 800 people. normally in the united states, 25 to 40,000 people die every year of influenza. this guilt 800 people in total

because it was a new infection and it was not identified initially and people were dying horribly and particularly people and hospitals were dying by the medical personnel were dying. there was a great deal of fear. in the end it cost about $50 billion in economic loss due to people not traveling, not using hotels and people not buying stuff. so it was a major economic problem and that's really what alerted the world to the fact that respiratory infections, or reminded the world the fact that respiratory infections can be extremely dangerous. that really convinced to various governments we have to take it graciously. it also convinced the people in real power it's not just the poor who get impacted. even they could be infected so they're willing to spend money on this. that was one of the reasons why the h. 15 151 was take assessors for. the contagion of course we have exactly the same situation.

it infects a pig. the pig is butchered by a chef. a shot shakes hands with gwyneth paltrow put in toledo and she is not feeling too well, takes a back to the use. she is stopping off a bit in chicago where she is something of a liaison, and then she goes back to the family in minneapolis this virus is worse than any virus we've ever seen but anyone who even -- gets infected guys and effects lots of other people. it's the most hideous virus in the world but it's a very good film about infectious disease. it's well-made, made by steven soderbergh and the full control of the science in it was a very good virus disease medic at columbia university. so it is generally pretty realistic. there are a few things

unrealistic like killing hundreds, thousands of people are dying and dying horribly in very quickly, and about three people are working on the problem. [laughter] but it shows the cdc or. adjust him what the cdc is and that's a big point in my book. what's really important is we maintain the stature of our public health services. ..